In the same way that we worry where the next generation of theater composers and lyricists are coming from, there is a similar concern over the future crop of cabaret performers. It is not a genre that young vocalists are drawn to. Nor, with the upward spiraling prices for an evening of cabaret, will you find many young people in the audience. Still, this month at the Colony … [Read more...]
Postcard from New York No. 8: ‘The Memory Show’
Most theatergoers recoiled when they heard that someone had written a musical about a woman with bipolar disorder, but Next to Normal won the Pulitzer Prize and ran almost two years on Broadway, spawning regional productions all over the country. Now the idea of such a show seems, well, almost normal. Still, are audiences ready for a musical about a woman facing the brick wall … [Read more...]
Second ‘Cosi’ cast shows off voices of great promise
This refined, delicate, good-looking production of Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, with swaths of brilliantly lit open spaces, marble statues and lovely costumes, harks back to productions at the Salzburg Festival in 1982 -- even down to the same sunshade beach umbrella. There’s nothing wrong with that: Imitation is the finest form of flattery, after all. It shows the careful … [Read more...]